Plotly Offline in R
Carson Sievert
Setup plotly offline
When you purchase plotly offline, you’ll receive a personal download link to a zip file named plotlyjs.zip. Once downloaded, just move that file to your ~/.plotly directory.
if (!dir.exists("~/.plotly")) dir.create("~/.plotly")
file.rename("~/Downloads/plotlyjs.zip", "~/.plotly/plotlyjs.zip")If, for some reason, you can’t move the zip file to that location, tell R to look elsewhere by changing the “plotly_offline” environment variable (in this case, you may want to place this snippet in your ~/.Rprofile).
Sys.setenv("plotly_offline" = "~/Downloads/")Hello Plotly Offline
To make offline plots, just give the offline() function a plotly object.
library(plotly)
p <- plot_ly(iris, x = Sepal.Width, y = Sepal.Length, color = Species, mode = "markers")
offline(p)Or give it a ggplot2 object
gg <- qplot(data = iris, x = Sepal.Width, y = Sepal.Length, color = Species)
offline(gg)Since plotly offline allows us to make standalone web pages, when using RStudio, your offline plots will appear directly in the viewer:
If you use plotly inside of shiny apps or reactive rmarkdown documents (and have plotly offline), your plotly graphs will be offline by default!
shiny::runApp(system.file("examples/UN_Simple", package = "plotly"))